A Series of Unfortunate Events

Well, I know that it has been quite a while since I have posted, but there is always a story behind everything. As I had previously mentioned we were going on our first vacation ever with Michelle. This first picture is of Michelle is the night before enjoying some sugar out of the post Halloween treat bowl.

Unfortunate Event 1: We knew that since Murphy's Law rules our lives we would have to make multiple plans to make sure that we survived the trip to our vacation. Plan A: use the big ventilator with a battery life of approximately 4 hours. That would allow for Michelle to breathe the easiest and have the best humidity. Plan B: CPAP device that has internal humidifier that can plug into the car, not as effective, but will work. Plan C: Oxygen bag, no humidity and if at all possible only for emergency use. Well we were in car for approximately 4o minutes when Plan A failed due to unknown issues with the battery. Of course we then went to Plan B. We had not even gone another 20 minutes when the internal humidifier of the CPAP device failed. I spent an hour adjusting this and that until it finally worked. Like I said before Plan C was only for emergency. Thankfully we did not have to get to that point.

Unfortunate Event 2: We decided to just to use the supposedly now working the CPAP device because it is more convenient and portable the next day while we had our first our Thanksgiving dinner of the season at Tory's brother's house. The dinner event in itself was a wonderful event since the entire Thornton family had not been together in exactly 2 years. However, as soon as we got there the CPAP device stopped working again. We tried everything our minds could think of, including trying to dry an electrical sensor with my sister-in-laws blow dryer. (I can feel you all cringing at the idea of an electrical sensor being wet, but that is long story in itself). Well we finally gave up, and Tory's brother Tim brought down his regular humidifier and we just watched Michelle really close to make sure her breathing did not become too labored.

Unfortunate Event 3: We got lost in downtown Salt Lake City, UT trying to go to a doctor's consultation. What more do we have to say. (Luckily our sister and brother-in-law told us to leave really early and we made it to the consultation on time.)

Unfortunate Event 4: This is only mildly unfortunate and just to me. I went shopping with my sister at this cool interior decorating store. I found the frame I have spent my entire married life looking for. It is this really big multi-opening frame that I wanted for our bedroom and only it was only 25 dollars. Well, there were a few problems. My sister's car was not big enough to get it back to her house, and our car was already pack full of medical equipment to get it back to our house. I know this is petty, but I was really sad.

Our trip was actually a fabulous trip. We spent so much time with our family and we are definitely the type of people that like being involved with our family. It was incredible looking at the dinner table and seeing all those people sitting there and realizing that that was our family. Wowsers.

We also were able to go to Temple Square, Tory and I haven't been there since we were engaged (6 years ago) and were there with his family for the annual Christmas Lighting ceremony. Time has definitely flown by this last little while. We took a couple pictures of us and Tory's parents while walking around. This was definitely not an unfortunate event.

We also were able to let Michelle play with her cousins. It is fun to look at how they react and interact. They were very cute and funny, of course with the parents these kids have it is no surprised how cute and fun they are. However, we only got pictures with a few of her cousins, stinking medical equipment taking up our time.

Yeah Cousins!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!